Steve Martin has been around long enough, not as long as King Tut, mind you, to get a life achievement award. Not just any life achievement award, "The Jerk" is getting America's highest honor.

Due to his career in film, Steve Martin, the once wild and crazy guy with the arrow through his head and the crazy banjo fingers will be take home the 43rd AFI Life Achievement Award.  The highest honor for a career in film will be presented to Martin at a gala tribute in Los Angeles, CA on June 4, 2015, though Martin may have to get small first.

Martin started on the writing staff for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. He won an Emmy for that in 1969. One of the most diversified performers and acclaimed artists of his generation, Steve Martin is an actor, comedian, author, playwright, screenwriter, producer and musician. Martin appeared on a TV shows like The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and Saturday Night Live. He wrote books and recorded albums. All the while in a white suit. He also played a mean banjo.

"Steve Martin is an American original," said Sir Howard Stringer, Chair of the American Film Institute's Board of Trustees.  "From a wild and crazy stand-up comic to one who stands tall among the great figures in this American art form, he is a multi-layered creative force bound by neither convention nor caution. His work is defined by him alone, for he is the author - and a national treasure whose work has stuck with us like an arrow in the head.  AFI is proud to present him with its 43rd Life Achievement Award."

Martin's already won an Emmy, four Grammys, a Kennedy Center Honor and an Honorary Oscar.

Martin came up through the comedy clubs. Martin's first film was a seven-minute short he wrote and starred in, THE ABSENT-MINDED WAITER, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Film, Live Action in 1977. In 1979, he had a breakout role as the sweet and clueless "Navin Johnson" in THE JERK (which Martin also co-wrote).  He starred with Bernadette Peters in PENNIES FROM HEAVEN (1981) - watch for a great Christopher Walken dance number and made DEAD MEN DON'T WEAR PLAID (1982), THE MAN WITH TWO BRAINS (1983), THREE AMIGOS! (1986), LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (1986) and DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS (1988) ALL OF ME (1984), PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES (1987), ROXANNE (1987) and FATHER OF THE BRIDE parts I and II (1991, 1995), PARENTHOOD (1989), GRAND CANYON (1991), L.A. STORY (1991) and SHOPGIRL (2005).

The 43rd AFI Life Achievement Award tribute special airs on TNT in June 2015, followed by encore presentations on sister network Turner Classic Movies (TCM).